In the course of categorizing articles on pianists over the weekend, I came upon a large
amount of highly POV material inserted across some thirty articles which appears to have
been added by a user named Pgeffen in January. Worse, this material appears to a copyright
violation; according to a message posted on his Talk page by user Mandel a month ago, it
was lifted from the book "Classical Music" (ed. Alexander Morin) (alas, Mandel
did not follow up on his copyvio warning). I have listed the relevant articles on the new
[[Wikipedia:Help wanted]], which Danny created in response to a conversation on IRC we had
about the situation. This affair IMO is a major lapse in quality control, and is
symptomatic of our pursuit of quantity over quality. To use a phrase of Karl Marx from a
different context, we are clearly in the phase of "primitive accumulation",
with all its attendant ills.
V.